Friedrich Wiese

Friedrich Wiese (5 December 1892-13 February 1975) was a General der Infanterie of Nazi Germany during World War II.

Biography
Friedrich Wiese was born in Nordhastedt, Schleswig-Holstein, German Empire on 5 December 1892, and he served as an Imperial German Army officer during World War I. He served in the police after the war's end, and he took command of the German 26th Infantry Division on 15 April 1942 during World War II, and he became the commander of the German 9th Army in southern France in June 1944. After the Allied landing at Toulon in August 1944, his troops retreated northward through the Rhone Valley, and his army stopped in the east of Burgundy and the Vosges between September and November 1944 before being pushed back to the Upper Rhine by the US Seventh Army. Wiese was relieved of command on 15 December 1944 and replaced by Siegfried Rasp, and he was transferred to the Fuhrerreserve. On 19 March 1945, he was given command of the VIII Armeekorps in Silesia, and he later led the XI Armeekorps in the Olomouc region of Czechoslovakia; he was forced to surrender to the Soviets at the end of the war.